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When friend groups struggle to coordinate medical support fairly

Our friend group has been trying to coordinate who's helping Sarah get to her chemo appointments, but some people are more available than others and there's weird tension about who's doing 'enough.' Nobody wants to say they can't handle it, but some of us are burning out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The logistics of sustained medical support can reveal uncomfortable inequalities in availability and emotional capacity within relationships.

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